Urban growth and environmental solid waste management in Tanzania: a case study of Dodoma municipality.

Juma, Homera

dc.creator	Juma, Homera
dc.date	2019-09-03T08:26:04Z
dc.date	2019-09-03T08:26:04Z
dc.date	2013
dc.date.accessioned	2022-10-20T12:07:41Z
dc.date.available	2022-10-20T12:07:41Z
dc.identifier	Juma, H. (2013). Urban growth and environmental solid waste management in Tanzania: a case study of Dodoma municipality. Dodoma: The University of Dodoma
dc.identifier	http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12661/1502
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12661/1502
dc.description	Dissertation (MA Public Administration)
dc.description	This study aimed to assess the urban growth and environmental solid waste management in Dodoma Municipality. From the data given by National Bureau of Statistics shows that Dodoma Municipal is growing faster. For the purpose of obtaining sufficient data the specific objectives and research questions included: factors responsible for the urban growth and source of solid waste disposal in different parts of Dodoma Municipality, the trend of environmental waste management condition in Dodoma Municipality, the current effects of urban growth on environmental management in Dodoma Municipality, and the efforts undertaken by Municipal Authority to provide adequate environmental solid waste management in Dodoma Municipality. The study used cross-sectional survey design and obtained data through questionnaire, interview and group discussion from the randomly sampling selected sample for the study in six wards selected for the study in Dodoma Municipality. Qualitative data was analysed through analysis methods content and structured functional analysis was used to analyse qualitative data and information while the quantitative data collected through structural and semi structured questionnaires were analysed using statistical package for social science (SPSS) to obtain descriptive statistics such as percentage of the respondents, frequencies and mean. From the findings there were many factors including, migration of people of both rural urban migration and migration from other towns to Dodoma Municipality, Socioeconomic activities, natural increase as the causes of urban growth while the Households residents and the street vendors were the source of solid waste disposal in Dodoma Municipality. The efforts taken to solid waste management include education and awareness creation to citizen, collection of waste and allocation of specific dumping areas.
dc.publisher	The University of Dodoma
dc.subject	Urban growth
dc.subject	Urban development
dc.subject	Waste management
dc.subject	Environmental sanitation
dc.subject	Environmental management
dc.subject	Dodoma municipality
dc.subject	Environmental waste management
dc.subject	Waste disposal
dc.subject	Solid waste management
dc.subject	Solid waste disposal
dc.title	Urban growth and environmental solid waste management in Tanzania: a case study of Dodoma municipality.
dc.type	Dissertation